Books with author Jo Ann Schneider

Return to Wendy’s plight in the enthralling third installment of the Jagged Scars Series.Wendy conquered the monster in her mind.The people of Shelter are safe.For now.In the aftermath of the plague, the leaders of Shelter decide to go on the offensive. Wendy wants another shot at Pelton, and she is the first to volunteer.But Jeff has other ideas. He’s putting together a secret strike team, and he wants Wendy on board. It means going in first. It means a greater risk of death. It means letting someone else take care of Pelton.Unfortunately, Wendy is finding it more and more difficult to say no to Jeff. She thinks about him all the time. She wonders what he’s doing. She wants to be with him.They pretend to date so that no one will ask about the time they spend together for the strike team, but when Wendy realizes she’s no longer pretending, she wonders how a relationship will fit into her world. Download your copy of Shattered Dreams today and find out how Wendy copes with being twitterpated in the middle of a war.

Tainted crops killed millions.The Skinnies ate the rest.Sixteen year old Wendy never knew the world before the Starvation. She’s learned to put her trust in her knives, and her confidence in her fighting ability.When Skinnies destroy her compound, she is the lone survivor.With a broken body and a shattered mind, Wendy is rescued and nursed back to health by mysterious strangers.But trust has never been one of Wendy's strengths, and suspicion soon leads to evidence that these people want something that only Wendy can find. Something they killed her entire family for.Taking the settlement down from the inside in order to get her revenge requires Wendy to do something she really isn’t good at.Fight her way through five men twice her size?Easy.Make small talk, listen to other teenagers prattle on about their problems and pretend to care all while battling her own internal demons?Wendy would rather face a hoard of Skinnies.If you’re a fan of The Walking Dead and Divergent, love stories about friendship and sacrifice and adore great characters this series is for you.

The doctors want to know why Lys did it.Lys wants to know too.Sixteen-year-old Lysandra Blake is forced to question her sanity after attempting to rip her mother’s eyes out of their sockets. Lys has no idea where this Need came from, she just wants it to go away.The possibility of a normal life seems lost, when the mysterious Jeremiah Mason appears. He assures Lys that she’s not crazy. Instead she’s addicted to a rare and deadly drug she swears she never took. He offers her hope in the form of his recovery facility. Afraid of who she will hurt next, Lys clings to the chance that she can be cured. At the facility, Lys meets Kamau, a seventeen-year-old from Mozambique with perfect table manners and secrets of his own.Together they discover Mason lied about their condition. When Lys starts seeing visions, and the two of them are kidnapped, they find themselves thrown headfirst into a world of unbelievable powers and dangerous possibilities.If you’re a fan of Michael Vey and the X-Men and care about compelling characters this series is for you. Download your copy today!What Readers are Saying:“New Sight is a high-octane YA urban/paranormal fantasy thriller.”“The world that Jo creates is an awesome one where magic is real and it’s a real problem.”“Jo Schneider does an amazing job in revealing the inner turmoil of the protagonist: euphoria vs. guilt, strength vs. the overriding compulsion to succumb to her deepest of urges.”

Sixteen year old Wendy never knew the world before the Starvation. She’s learned to put her trust in her knives, and her confidence in her fighting ability. When the Skinnies attack her compound, she's the lone survivor. Injured and near death, Wendy is rescued and nursed back to health by mysterious strangers. Her saviors offer her a place among them, but trust has never been one of Wendy's strengths, and suspicion soon leads to evidence that these people might be the group who killed her family. The decision to get her revenge, and take the settlement down from the inside out is easy. Keeping her distance from those she must befriend in order to make it happen proves to be much more difficult.

The doctors want to know why Lys did it.Lys wants to know too.Sixteen-year-old Lysandra Blake is forced to question her sanity after attempting to rip her mother’s eyes out of their sockets. Lys has no idea where this Need came from, she just wants it to go away.The possibility of a normal life seems lost, when the mysterious Jeremiah Mason appears. He assures Lys that she’s not crazy. Instead she’s addicted to a rare and deadly drug she swears she never took. He offers her hope in the form of his recovery facility. Afraid of who she will hurt next, Lys clings to the chance that she can be cured. At the facility, Lys meets Kamau, a seventeen-year-old from Mozambique with perfect table manners and secrets of his own.Together they discover Mason lied about their condition. When Lys starts seeing visions, and the two of them are kidnapped, they find themselves thrown headfirst into a world of unbelievable powers and dangerous possibilities.If you’re a fan of Michael Vey and the X-Men and care about compelling characters this series is for you. Download your copy today!What Readers are Saying:“New Sight is a high-octane YA urban/paranormal fantasy thriller.”“The world that Jo creates is an awesome one where magic is real and it’s a real problem.”“Jo Schneider does an amazing job in revealing the inner turmoil of the protagonist: euphoria vs. guilt, strength vs. the overriding compulsion to succumb to her deepest of urges.”

Their hero is a fraud and only he knows it. When the truth comes knocking, can one boy conjure a way to save the day?Young Samual longs to perform magic of his own. And what’s worse, he can’t seem to convince anyone that their beloved Town Magician is a trickster without an enchanted bone in his body. So when a wicked wizard challenges the pretender to a duel, Samual vows to keep his village safe by forcing the fraudster to rise to the challenge.Determined to prevent disaster, he secretly shadows the phony protector during his training with the Grand Wizard. And when they barely escape an attack by dire wolves, Samual realizes he must partner up with his bitter rival. But keeping the truth hidden any longer may not help them outwit a powerful sorcerer.With his town in grave danger, can Samual protect the ones he loves from the forces of evil?Embracing the Magic is the enchanting first story in the Town Magician middle grade fantasy series. If you enjoy unlikely heroes, coming-of-age adventures, and spellbinding creatures, then you’ll love S.A. Schneider’s fantastical tale.Buy Embracing the Magic to leap into a world of wonder today! On sale at a special pre-order price.For prequel stories and writing activities for kids, visit https://www.sa-schneider.com/

Wendy has wrestled the monster in her head into a corner where she hopes to keep it at bay. Thanks to her and the other fighters, Shelter is safe, but the victory didn't come without loss. During the Writing on the Wall—a tribute to the dead—Mike announces his plan to after Pelton and his people. Wendy is the first to volunteer. But Jeff has other ideas. He asks Wendy and a few other trusted fighters to join him on a team that will go in before the main force and wreak havoc in the complex. The price? Wendy has to lie to the rest of her friends and pretend to date Jeff to cover for the time they spend together. Which would be okay if Wendy didn't actually have feelings for Jeff. But the worst part, the part Wendy isn't sure she can live with, is that Pelton might get away, and she will never avenge her family.

Lysandra Blake may have thwarted Mason’s plan to bring magic back into the world, but she and her friends are far from safe. With the touch seal leaking waves of unstable power, and Mason trying to break more users, they are fighting an uphill battle.An uneasy alliance with the New isn’t enough, so Ayden asks Kamau to reach out to his tribe. The tribes are secretive, paranoid and more apt to kill outsiders than listen to anything they say, but when Mason’s touch users exhibit powers beyond the norm, Kamau agrees.Lys and the rest are thrust into a world of hidden powers and drastic consequences. It doesn’t take long for Lys to realize she’s out of her league, and she quickly finds that she is dangerously close to losing what little control she has gained over her magic.

Jeff has exactly one thing left in this ruined world; his older brother, Dillon. They’ve seen and done things that drive most survivors crazy, and Jeff is afraid that the next encounter will push Dillon over the edge. After being hunted by Skinnies, as well as those who still claim humanity, they decide to head west over the mountains.Their journey is interrupted when they stumble on a shielded building. The Starvation happened almost twenty years ago, but the possibility of what could be inside is too alluring to pass up. The two alone aren’t enough to crack the shield. If they want in, they’re going to have to ask for help, and asking for help means dealing with people who will slit your throat for a scrap of good food.

Wendy is no stranger to death—she killed her first Skinny before she was ten—but the slaughter of her family is personal. Pelton's betrayal to the Den planted a wicked seed in Wendy's heart that is slowly growing into a ravenous monster bent on revenge. Its rage is bleeding into her dreams, her nightmares and her waking hours, staining everything, including her sanity. When the monster almost overpowers her, Wendy decides she should leave Shelter. But before her friends will let her go, a plague sweeps through the complex. Doc doesn't have the meds they need to cure it, but the map Wendy wrestled from Pelton could lead them to a place that does. Now Wendy must hold her mind together long enough to keep everyone she knows from dying. Again.

Amelia and her dog are best friends . . . until Princess Sparkle-Heart comes along. Soon, Amelia and Princess Sparkle-Heart are doing everything together: having tea parties, attending royal weddings, keeping each other's secrets. Princess Sparkle-Heart may be an awesome princess doll—but is she any match for a jealous canine? Look out, Princess Sparkle-Heart! This witty parable of sibling rivalry has all the giggle-inducing visual detail and kid-appeal of the author's previous work, plus an unexpected twist that makes for a satisfyingly delicious ending.

Lysandra Blake survived her fight with Jeremiah Mason in the magical realm, but everything has changed. Her powers have taken a turn—this time for the better—Mason stripped Kamau of his memories, the fisherman left the bulk of the tribe’s memories in Lys’ mind, and the tribes believe she will bring about the end of the world.The only hope they have of stopping Mason lies within the memories Lys has acquired. In them she finds a way to fix what he has broken, but like everything else that has happened since her magic broke, she and her friends will have to put their lives on the line. And even that might not be enough to stop the cascade of events that Mason has set in motion.